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Blimey, what a rollercoaster! I’ve never been a fan of Corbyn, even less, Corbynism (whatever that is) and I have never viewed him as a socialist, more of a liberal-lefty type, with his heart no doubt in all the ‘right places’ but above all, Corbyn is a Party Man, the Labour Party being his entire life, or rather, he was, until he was unceremoniously booted out after getting on for fifty years of…
Sunday, 27 April 2025 Dot Commie with a vengeance. By William Bowles Like a really bad meal and you think, I’m not going to that restaurant again. Yet here we are, eating the same, poisonous food and the same horrific consequences play out all over again. And in an irony of ironies, the victims Continue reading The past returns to haunt us
The control of information about events that affect our lives has become the main area of struggle between the people and the state-big business. Our minds, our thoughts are now the contested terrain
How to explain the (apparent) indifference of the populations of the West to the slaughter of Palestinians by USIsrael, aided and abetted by the European satrapies (satrap: a pejorative term that refers to any subordinate or local ruler, with embarrassing connotations of corruption)?
Thursday, 9 May 2024 Dot Commie William Bowles How can I put this? We live in a gaudy, sometimes, bubble, insulated from the world, fed an illusion that strokes our vanity, our egos, our presumptions but especially our fears. A world, so complete, so walled off from the real world and for so long Continue reading Everything we know is a lie
Given that the realm of politics, in fact pretty much everything is largely, if not completely, a male thing, is it any wonder that men who claim to be progressive, you know, enlightened and liberated, for the most part are absolutely clueless about 50% of the human race? In fact, judging by appearances, it would seem that females are a different species, let alone judged by their behaviour!
Monday, 3 October 2022 Investigating Imperialism Irony #1 What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal Continue reading Living In the Age of Ironies By William Bowles
Friday, 11 March 2022 Investigating Imperialism By William Bowles The power of symbols Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (note the Flags of nATO and the Azov Battalion and of course, the Swastika) No, I don t think it s nostalgia and it s not Andrei Tarkovsky s stunning movie, Nostalghia either, it s the image below, one of the 100s of Russian Continue reading Nostalgia?
24 December 2020 Investigating Imperialism Stop the world I want to get off! Anthony Newly Update 3: 24 December 2020 Officially Covid 24 December 2020 So I’m now officially Covid Positive. After my trauma of taking a shower on Monday, yesterday, I got transported to my local hospital’s A E department to get checked Continue reading The dreaded lurgi strikes By William Bowles
It would appear that the major capitalist classes of the world have waged total war on the planet's people without firing a shot and at the same time set up the infrastructure needed to enslave us, and all in order to preserve the rule of a bankrupt Capitalism.